SATURDAY and SUNDAY, JULY 24-25th 10:00 - 4:00 P.M.

PRINT, MAKE, WEAR, UPCYCLE

In this workshop you will explore and produce prints using textile inks and screens on your own fabrics, table linens, pillow cushions, or clothing. This workshop originated in a conversation about printing our own fabrics for clothing: summer dresses, tunics, overalls and jumpsuits. The beauty of our pop-up studio and teaching style is that you can interpret our concept however you like! All you have to do is come prepared with pre-washed fabric, precut garment patterns from your own stash/collection, or simple constructed pieces of clothing, table linens, or home goods that need a fresh new look.

You will engage in design ideas using your imagination and personal design resources from artwork, photos, ephemera, books etc. Create your own unique prints on garment pattern pieces, or print on pre-bought fabric blanks, table linens or give a beloved piece of clothing or item a new life.

On Saturday we will walk through:

• Introduction: preparation and demo to materials and screen printing

• Ideation, designing stencils, preparing screens, mixing inks

• Exploration and learning: exploring your design and mark making potential

• Before you print on your own fabrics there will be time for exploration of color and design elements

• Test your colors and screens on provided muslin

Then Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday we'll get into the Printing Groove: the remainder of the workshop is devoted to your own screen printing experimentation. This is when you'll take out your own fabric pieces and begin final printing.

Materials provided:

• 8 feet x 30 inch tables raised for comfort

• Table padding, right angle T-bars

• 1 yard of cotton muslin per person

• Textile inks, (textile inks are transparent and will not cover a dark fabric) containers, stirrers,

• 2 small screens per person, each can accommodate an 8.5 x 11 inch design

• Squeegees, spreaders

• Stencil materials: Duralar*.003 plastic sheets, speedball screen filler (semi permanent medium)

General materials also available:

• Sharpie markers, Tpins, masking tape, xacto knife, cutting mat, scissors, paint brushes, disposable gloves, paper towels, trash bags, newspaper, sponges, simple green, spray bottles

• Ironing board, iron, hair dryer

Required materials - what YOU need to bring with you!:

• Your simple stencil design ideas, in order to facilitate the time in an efficient manner come with your ideas and sketches ready for tracing and that can easily be cut from plastic .003 Duralar using an xacto knife, or painted on a screen with speedball screen filler, a semi-permanent medium

• All fabric must be prewashed for shrinkage!!

• Pre-washed natural fiber fabrics: only light or pastel colored knit or woven fabrics in natural fibers such as cotton, linen, rayon, Tencel, hemp, or cotton/poly blends

• Clothing and home goods to be upcycled (material as above)

• Precut fabric of garment patterns

• Apron

• Comfortable shoes

• Lunch and beverage

• Your own hairdryer if you have one (helps to dry inks in between color or pattern passes)

All of the textile inks and screens are purchased in Downtown LA at Rheetech.

If you would like to purchase your own screens, please choose 110 mesh count. Some standard sizes are available "off the rack," or screens can be custom made to your preferred size and profile (the depth of the frame can be ½ inch, 1 inch to regular). Rheetech has a super helpful staff and can answer your questions.

You can also mail your design in a pdf or jpeg file to the owner Brian Rhee and he will apply your design to a screen, by dressing it with photo emulsion and exposing the design on the screen. Allow at least 1 week for this process. Rheetech charges a nominal fee for the screens and photo emulsion application but more for the stencil transparency.

Rheetech – 2401 S Main St Los Angeles CA 90007 213-749-9111

If you have any questions please email Carrie at carrieburckle@gmail.com

This class is intended for fine artists, designers, painters, printmakers, surface designers and general enthusiasts. Class size limited to 10.

Students of all levels welcome. Please provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination(s) or mandatory masks are required at the door.

INSTRUCTOR BIO

Carrie Burckle is an artist, designer, and educator. She has a BFA in Textile Design, as well as an MFA in Fibers from CSULB, where she has taught for the past 17 years. She is also a co-founder of Textile Arts LA.